Coach leaves bench to sit in the stands.

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Blue: If a coach has changed his official status with the team, then it should be reported to the officials at the nearest opportunity. However, there is no penalty for not doing so.

Purple: the officials should not allow this. If the "coach" fails to comply, it is a technical foul.

I agree with this.

There's nothing that prohibits a coach from sitting in the stands and scouting/gathering information. However, I would say that coach may not communicate with the team for the rest of the game.

If this happened, this is the probably the only way I would notice a coach doing this if they went to the huddle. I would not allow the coach to be apart of the huddle and if they failed to comply then I would charge them with a technical foul.

With that said, I think you could charge a technical foul for the coach returning to the huddle, if you saw him coaching in the stands. That is unsporting and not within fair play and the spirit of the rules. However, as I said before, that's not how I would handle it.

[Judtech]

I thought this thread was about the dearly departed Ricky Birdsong formely of Northwestern (RIP)